Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lens. (The lens is especially vulnerable to microwave "cooking" because it has no blood vessels to carry off heat.) In 1968 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that another organ was vulnerable as well: the testes, because only slight temperature changes can affect the sperm-producing process...
...currencies of Japan and the West European countries rise against the dollar, the products of these countries become more expensive and harder to sell in world markets-so their economies are threatened too. At worst, the process, if allowed to continue, would lead to a breakdown of world trade and investment, for businessmen cannot make rational decisions if they do not know what the major trading and reserve currency-the dollar-will be worth months or weeks or even days hence. At times last week the dollar swung as much as 1% to 2% in value against some other currencies...
...theory, no single energy source has seemed more promising than fusion, the process by which science seeks to kindle the same nuclear fires as those in the sun. But until recently, progress has been painfully slow; fusion is not expected to produce power before well into the 21st century. Now an experiment at Princeton University has ignited new optimism about the future of fusion...
...work of a tireless Inquisitor: Jacques Fournier, bishop of Pamiers. A learned, tough-minded Cistercian monk, Bishop Fournier took charge of the local Inquisition. Montaillou's heretics -spiritual heirs of the Albigensians who had been so bloodily crushed the century before-became his target. In the process he left a thick record of testimony from the accused and witnesses...
...both. Long accustomed to serving the small percentage of the population that can afford high legal fees, the profession -glutted with new lawyers-is slowly entering an age of providing mass legal services and charging less for them. Advertising on TV and elsewhere will no doubt speed up that process...